Resources: Tools for Learning Chemistry

The ChemEd DL provides a Moodle server as a service to the chemical education community. Teachers can find courses to use in their classroom, contribute their chemistry Moodle courses and resources, or develop new chemistry materials to share with others.

an award-winning collection of high-quality QuickTime video clips and still images that bring chemistry to life with depictions of chemical reactions and techniques. CCA! video and imagery is readily incorprated into other presentation formats such as Web pages and presentations.

ChemPRIME (Chemical Principles through Integrated Multiple Exemplars) is designed so that chemistry concepts can be presented in an order that reflects the conceptual structure of the discipline and students are able to learn chemistry within a broad range of contexts that relate chemistry to other disciplines and everyday life. ChemPRIME is a collaborative project in which concepts and contexts can be contributed by anyone to a wiki and used free of charge by anyone for non-commercial purposes.

This glossary of chemical terms provides an easy way to find definitions chemists would apply to many scientific terms. The glossary is constantly being updated, so if you would like to add a term or definition, please contact us.

a periodic table with access to data and descriptions of the elements. It uses images and video from the Chemistry Comes Alive! collection to bring the periodic table alive with high-quality depictions of reactions of the elements, along with the JMol chemical structure viewer which provides an interactive, 3D display of the the crystal structures of the elements.

a tutorial discussing stereochemistry definitions, as well as methods for assigning priorities, stereochemical configurations, and stereochemical relationships between molecules. Students have the ability to choose their preferred method of visualization for making molecular comparisons, having all of their content tailored to their chosen visualization method.

The Textbook-Integrated Guide to Educational Resources (TIGER) is ChemEd DL's new way to find useful online resources. Find your textbook in the list and click on the title. This will take you to a table of contents where you can choose the chapter and section that you are currently studying. A list of resources from ChemEd DL will appear.

lessons linking the science done by specific research groups with middle and high school curricula.

In addition, the ChemEd DL provides many opportunities to connect with a variety of communities interested in the promotion of the life-long learning and teaching of chemistry.

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ChemEd DL: Resources

ChemEd DL seeks to provide exemplary resources for chemistry teachers and students—resources that are versatile and reliable tools that span all aspects of chemical education, from middle school science through college-level classes and topics. Our collection includes interactive simulations, tutorials, activities, wikis, reference materials, images, video and even more. You can use these digital resources in the classroom to demonstrate or illustrate chemistry concepts, in an online course, or integrated into activities or laboratories. In addition, your students can use them to supplement their chemistry learning.

Help us build our collection—contribute to the ChemEd DL. If you have a resource for teaching or learning chemistry that you want to share with the chemical education community, let us know about it by contacting us at chemeddl_contact@acs.org.

Controlled Vocabulary

ChemEd DL Resources are stored in a content repository from which they can be retrieved using a controlled vocabulary of keywords. Each resource is classified using keywords when it is added to our collections, and keywords are used to link resources with other related resources or with textbooks in our TIGER system.

Periodic Table Live!

The periodic table is one of the central organizational tools of chemistry. It is one of the most recognizable icons in all of science. The Web has several periodic table sites, probably the best known being Web Elements.

Periodic Table Live! (PTL!) helps bring the periodic table alive through its use of images, video, and 3D interactives. It has much of the data that the other periodic tables have and also provides interactive tools for charting and sorting the data.

It is because of these unique features that Periodic Table Live! is one of the featured collections of ChemEd DL. But we also have plans for PTL! at ChemEd DL. Through the use of ChemEd Collaborative, the ChemEd DL wiki, we invite you to participate in the future development of PTL! As articles about the elements in the ChemEd Collaborative are revised and developed, they will be reflected back into PTL, thus continually breathing new life into Periodic Table Live! Join us in building an exemplary periodic table for learning about the central organizational tool of the central science.